Let G ⊂ Aut (C) be a (finite) group of automorphisms of a curve C defined over a field K and, for each subgroup H ≤ G, let gH denote the genus of the quotient curve CH = C/H (briefly: quotient genus of H).
In this paper we show that certain idempotent relations in the rational group ring [G] imply relations between the quotient genera {gH}H=G this generalizes two theorems of Accola. Moreover, we show that in the case of char (K) = p ≠ 0, a similar statement holds for the Hasse-Witt invariants σH of the curves CH